Concentration Quotes - Page 35

• No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Time, Stupid, Strategy

  "Management". Book by Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz, Random House, Business Division, p. 100, 1987.

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• Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

  Jane Seymour

  Golf, Swings, Focus

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• Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

  David Frost

  Inspirational, Work, Two

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• I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

  Sting

  Party, Believe, Commitment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

  John Olver

  Atmosphere, Industrialization, Increase

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• To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

  Philip Roth

  Reading, Two, Focus

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, Concentration Of Wealth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

  Geoff Dyer

  Obvious Things, Boredom, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Silence, Expansion, Grows

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• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Holocaust

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• I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Children, Humanity, Attention

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• Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Passion, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Essence, Mountain, Environment

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• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Simple, Views, Understanding

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• How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Struggle, Effort

  "The Cathedral". The Atlantic Monthly, 1846.

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• The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

  Olive Schreiner

  Secret, Looks, Littles

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Father, Roles, Helping

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Meaningful, Exercise, People

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, staging.believermag.com. January 2009.

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• The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Abiding, Easy, Lifestyle

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.9, Discovery House

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• We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

  Kevin O'Leary

  Exercise, Long, Brain

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• Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

  Richard Serra

  Determination, Art, People

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• Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

  Roger Bannister

  Mind, Results, Performances

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• The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.

  Leopold Auer

  Eight, Practice, Play

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• I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Crush, Clay, Language

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Focus, Mind, Trying

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